6. Ray Donovan: Ray Donovan is Hollywood’s superhero. Too bad all the time spent on his home life is booooring. The Clip: Did your actor blow a transvestite hooker? TMZ sniffing around? Better call Saul Ray.

5. Episodes: Would be higher on the list if the show could decide whether it wanted to be more absurd or more realistic. It’s stuck in the middle. Squash, just like a grape.

The Clip: The network moved their show to Saturday, aka where shows go to die. And that’s what happens. Bright side: they get to finish filming it.

4. Entourage: Essentially the biggest male fantasy of the decade. It started strong, but waned as Ari grew softer and Vinnie learned less.

The Clip: We love Ari when he’s at his angriest. And everyone loves a character who is good at his job. Here we get both.

3.Californication: Sex and satire and Rob Lowe and leather jackets. It’s like a Hollywood listicle of “things that will get us good ratings.”

2. Curb Your Enthusiasm: Absurdist humor to the hilt. In an industry run by the chosen people, Larry is the ultimate insider — so he’s ultimately positioned to take the piss out of everyone.

The Clip: Palestinian Chicken. You know it, you love it — relive it.

1. The Larry Sanders Show: Where Curb Your Enthusiasm is off-the-wall, The Larry Sanders Show is a subtle satire that mixes Hollywood fact with fiction. It’s the most sublime of the Hollywood-on-Hollywood TV shows, if the word sublime can be used in proximity to Larry Sanders’s Questlovian coif. Mazel tov!The Clip: Sarah Silverman reveals ye olde tension some women encounter in the writers' room.